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Author: Schmeiser, Maximilian D.
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1. Schmeiser, Maximilian D.
Expanding Wallets and Waistlines: The Impact of Family Income on the BMI of Women and Men Eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit
Health Economics 18,11 (November 2009): 1277-1294.
Also: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121606649/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC); Family Income; Obesity

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The rising rate of obesity has reached epidemic proportions and is now one of the most serious public health challenges facing the US. However, the underlying causes for this increase are unclear. This paper examines the effect of family income changes on body mass index (BMI) and obesity using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort. It does so by using exogenous variation in family income in a sample of low-income women and men. This exogenous variation is obtained from the correlation of their family income with the generosity of state and federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) program benefits. Income is found to significantly raise the BMI and probability of being obese for women with EITC-eligible earnings, and have no appreciable effect for men with EITC-eligible earnings. The results imply that the increase in real family income from 1990 to 2002 explains between 10 and 21% of the increase in sample women's BMI and between 23 and 29% of their increased obesity prevalence. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Bibliography Citation
Schmeiser, Maximilian D. "Expanding Wallets and Waistlines: The Impact of Family Income on the BMI of Women and Men Eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit." Health Economics 18,11 (November 2009): 1277-1294.
2. Schmeiser, Maximilian D.
Expanding Wallets and Waistlines: The Impact of Family Income on the BMI of Women and Men Eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit
Discussion Paper No. 1339-08, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin–Madison, July 2008
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), University of Wisconsin - Madison
Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC); Family Income; Income; Obesity

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

The rising rate of obesity has reached epidemic proportions and is now one of the most serious public health challenges facing the US. However, the underlying causes for this increase are unclear. This paper examines the effect of family income changes on body mass index (BMI) and obesity using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort. It does so by using exogenous variation in family income in a sample of low-income women and men. This exogenous variation is obtained from the correlation of their family income with the generosity of state and federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) program benefits. Income is found to significantly raise the BMI and probability of being obese for women with EITC-eligible earnings, and have no appreciable effect for men with EITC-eligible earnings. The results imply that the increase in real family income from 1990 to 2002 explains between 10 and 21 percent of the increase in sample women's BMI and between 23 and 29 percent of their increased obesity prevalence.
Bibliography Citation
Schmeiser, Maximilian D. "Expanding Wallets and Waistlines: The Impact of Family Income on the BMI of Women and Men Eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit." Discussion Paper No. 1339-08, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin–Madison, July 2008.
3. Schmeiser, Maximilian D.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Child Obesity: Revisiting the NLSY79
Presented: Milwaukee, WI, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association's AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting, July 2009.
Also: http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/49280/2/The%20Supplemental%20Nutrition%20Assistance%20Program%20and%20Child%20Obesity%20AAEA.pdf
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA)
Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC); Family Income; Food Stamps (see Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program); Modeling, Fixed Effects; Obesity; State-Level Data/Policy; Weight

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Over the past three decades the prevalence of obesity among children in the United States has more than tripled. A clear income gradient exists in the prevalence of obesity, with low-income children significantly more likely to be obese. One suggested cause of the higher prevalence of obesity among children in low-income families is participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), as the obesity prevalence among SNAP participants is consistently higher than that of eligible non-participants. This paper examines the effect of long-term SNAP participation on the obesity status of children ages 3 to 11 using data from the Children and Young Adults of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and an instrumental variables identification strategy. Doing so, I find that there is no effect of the SNAP on obesity status for either boys or girls.
Bibliography Citation
Schmeiser, Maximilian D. "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Child Obesity: Revisiting the NLSY79." Presented: Milwaukee, WI, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association's AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting, July 2009.
4. Schmeiser, Maximilian D.
The Impact of Long Term Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Child Obesity
Presented: Chicago, IL, Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, June 2009
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: AcademyHealth
Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC); Family Income; Food Stamps (see Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program); Modeling, Fixed Effects; Obesity; State-Level Data/Policy; Weight

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Research Question: • Does participation in the SNAP program increase obesity among children ages 5 to 18? • Focus on percent of time over past 5 years child participated in SNAP since obesity is a stock measure which takes time to adjust to changes in behavior • Use an Instrumental Variables (IV) strategy to identify causal effect of SNAP participation on child obesity
Bibliography Citation
Schmeiser, Maximilian D. "The Impact of Long Term Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Child Obesity." Presented: Chicago, IL, Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, June 2009.
5. Schmeiser, Maximilian D.
The Impact of Long Term Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Child Obesity
Working Paper, Department of Consumer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 2010.
Also: https://www.appam.org/conferences/fall/boston2010/sessions/downloads/1097.1.pdf
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Department of Consumer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC); Family Income; Food Stamps (see Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program); Geocoded Data; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Obesity; State-Level Data/Policy; Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly Food Stamps); Weight

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

See also: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1645525 for a working paper published earlier in 2010.

Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) reached an all-time high of 40.2 million persons in March 2010, which means the program affects a substantial fraction of Americans. A significant body of research has emerged suggesting that participation in SNAP increases the probability of being obese for adult women and has little effect on the probability for adult men. However, studies addressing the effects of participation on children have produced mixed results. This paper examines the effect of long-term SNAP participation on the Body Mass Index (BMI) percentile and probability of being overweight or obese for children ages 5 through 18 using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Children and Young Adults data set. An instrumental variables identification strategy that exploits exogenous variation in state-level program parameters, as well as state and federal expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), is used to address the endogeneity between SNAP participation and obesity. SNAP participation is found to significantly reduce BMI percentile and the probability of being overweight or obese for boys and girls ages 5 through 11 and boys ages 12 through 18. For girls ages 12 through 18, SNAP participation appears to have no significant effect on these outcomes.

Bibliography Citation
Schmeiser, Maximilian D. "The Impact of Long Term Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Child Obesity." Working Paper, Department of Consumer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 2010.
6. Schmeiser, Maximilian D.
The Impact of Long-Term Participation In the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Child Obesity
Health Economics 21,4 (April 2012): 386-404.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hec.1714/abstract
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Child Growth; Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC); Family Income; Food Stamps (see Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program); Geocoded Data; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Modeling, Instrumental Variables; Obesity; State-Level Data/Policy; Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly Food Stamps); Weight

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SUMMARY
Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) reached an all-time high of 40.2 million persons in March 2010, which means the program affects a substantial fraction of Americans. A significant body of research has emerged suggesting that participation in SNAP increases the probability of being obese for adult women and has little effect on the probability for adult men. However, studies addressing the effects of participation on children have produced mixed results. This paper examines the effect of long-term SNAP participation on the Body Mass Index (BMI) percentile and probability of being overweight or obese for children ages 5–18 using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Children and Young Adults data set. An instrumental variables identification strategy that exploits exogenous variation in state-level program parameters, as well as state and federal expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), is used to address the endogeneity between SNAP participation and obesity. SNAP participation is found to significantly reduce BMI percentile and the probability of being overweight or obese for boys and girls ages 5–11 and boys ages 12–18. For girls ages 12–18, SNAP participation appears to have no significant effect on these outcomes. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Bibliography Citation
Schmeiser, Maximilian D. "The Impact of Long-Term Participation In the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Child Obesity." Health Economics 21,4 (April 2012): 386-404.
7. Schmeiser, Maximilian D.
The Impact of Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Child Obesity
Presented: Boston, MA, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Research Conference, Thirty-second Annual, 4-6 November, 2010.
Also: https://www.appam.org/conferences/fall/boston2010/sessions/panelinfo.asp?id=HEALTH-03&type=detail
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM)
Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Child Growth; Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC); Family Income; Food Stamps (see Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program); Geocoded Data; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Modeling, Instrumental Variables; Obesity; State-Level Data/Policy; Weight

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

In September of 2009 participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) reached an all time high of 37.2 million persons. A significant body of research has emerged suggesting that participation in the SNAP increases the probability of being obese for adult women and has little effect on obesity for adult men; however the evidence on the effect of SNAP participation on child obesity is much more tenuous. Moreover, to date no research has adequately addresses the endogeneity between SNAP participation and weight. This paper examines the effect of long-term SNAP participation on the Body Mass Index (BMI) percentile, and probability of being overweight or obese for children ages 5 through 18 using data from the Children and Young Adults of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and an instrumental variables identification strategy that exploits exogenous variation in eligibility for the SNAP based on the labor supply response to changes in state and federal Earned Income Tax Credit programs, as well as state level variation in SNAP eligibility requirements. Doing so, SNAP participation is found to significantly reduce BMI percentile and the probability of being overweight or obese for both boys and girls ages 5 through 11 and boys ages 12 through 18. For girls ages 12 through 18, SNAP participation appears to increase BMI percentile and the probability of being overweight or obese. Therefore, the expansion of the SNAP presents one possible policy intervention for reducing the obesity prevalence among children.
Bibliography Citation
Schmeiser, Maximilian D. "The Impact of Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Child Obesity." Presented: Boston, MA, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Research Conference, Thirty-second Annual, 4-6 November, 2010.
8. Schmeiser, Maximilian D.
Trigger Events and Financial Outcomes Over the Lifespan
CFS Research Brief (FLRC 10-3), Center for Financial Security, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 2010
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: University of Wisconsin - Madison
Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Educational Attainment; Financial Literacy; Income Dynamics/Shocks; Resilience/Developmental Assets

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This research identifies demographic groups vulnerable to trigger events to inform efforts to improve financial education. Specifically, this study examines the effects of trigger events on net worth throughout the life course. In general, educational attainment is a better predictor of resilience to a negative shock than intelligence but effects vary across age groups and by type of shock. The findings provide an opportunity to target financial education where it is most needed.
Bibliography Citation
Schmeiser, Maximilian D. "Trigger Events and Financial Outcomes Over the Lifespan." CFS Research Brief (FLRC 10-3), Center for Financial Security, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 2010.